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cesspool

[ses-pool] / ˈsɛsˌpul /
NOUN
pit
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“These last two years have been just a cesspool of coercion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Decommissioning his old cesspool and buying the new septic tank already cost almost $10,000, he said, and installation and testing could easily triple that.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

It was into the post-noughties misogynist cesspool that the early feminist blogosphere was born, and initially, it was fun and freewheeling.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

The misery now being inflicted on poor people crowded into cesspool camps from the Congo to Bangladesh defies description.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

My mind feels like a thick, swampy cesspool, a muddled mess.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau


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